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The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], Matters in Norfolk. (search)
the regiment should never go out of the department. There is great mortality among the negro troops; and the Macon House, once a well known hotel in Portsmouth, has been converted into a hospital for them. Regiments of negroes, numbering at their organization 1,000, are now reduced to six hundred. Those is North Carolina have suffered as severely. Wm. R. Houghton, a citizen, was arrested for appearing in Federal uniform. He had been confined in Fort Norfolk for having a Confederate Major's commission in his house. He "took the oath" and was released. Among the Court proceedings we see a suit of Geo. H. Merriam, of Norfolk, against Wm. Webster, of Newport News, for $14, 1000. The property of Webster had been attached. The remains of Sanborn, the Yankee lieutenant killed by Dr. D. M. Wright, had been disinterred and sent North. The pastor of a negro church delivered a discourse over it from the Custom- House steps. Miss Susan Denin is playing at Norfolk.
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], The family of the late Dr. D. M. Wright, of Norfolk. (search)
The family of the late Dr. D. M. Wright, of Norfolk. --The Petersburg (Va.) Intelligencer says that any remittances in aid of the family of Dr. D. M. Wright, who died the death of a martyr at Norfolk, may be mailed to that office, and will reacDr. D. M. Wright, who died the death of a martyr at Norfolk, may be mailed to that office, and will reach its proper destination. The Intelligencer adds: Among all the afflictions brought upon families and individuals by this war, we have heard of no case which presents so many horrors as that of the family of the late Dr. David M. Wright, latelDr. David M. Wright, lately murdered by the Yankees in Norfolk. Since his cruel murder by hanging, his widow has died of distress of mind, and one of his daughters, a most interesting young lady, has gone mad. The eldest son of Dr. Wright having been killed at the battle ofDr. Wright having been killed at the battle of Gettysburg, his family are now left in indigent circumstances and without a protector. Under these circumstances, it has been determined to make an effort to raise in the Confederacy, by subscription, a sum of money sufficient to bring the family o